Two burning questions

[BacktoCricaddict]

The confusing part is that some stadiums are named for their locality, some for their shape, others for their sponsor, and yet others for their sponsor and shape combined.

 

Other than Laards and Ellipse, everything else was confusing, Until ICF set me straight. 

 

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And then there is Tunbridge Wells (the name is etched in my memory forever. Is it a locality? Or stadium name? Can't be a shape).

 

No TV, no video evidence, but great memories of reading morning newspaper scoreboard in disbelief showing that Kapil Dev had scored 175 to lead India to a historic win! 

Edited July 30, 2025 by BacktoCricaddict

[lemsip]

17 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Tunbridge Wells

The full name is "Royal Tunbridge Wells" and it is a town in the county Kent.

Edited July 30, 2025 by lemsip

[BacktoCricaddict]

7 minutes ago, lemsip said:

The full name is "Royal Tunbridge Wells" and it is a town in the county Kent.

That sounds like an IPL franchise name. 

[neel roy]

17 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Lords is in London. Kensington oval is also in London.  So they can differentiate it by calling OVal and Lords.

Its not kensington oval. Its kennington oval. Kensington Oval is in Barbados.
 

London has 2 grounds. North london st johns wood ( tube stop) is Lords. South london kennington its oval. The tube stop name is Oval. 

 

Eden Park and Eden Gardens. One in Auckland one in mamtaland. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

Just now, neel roy said:

 

Eden Park and Eden Gardens. One in Auckland one in mamtaland. 

Don't forget Eden Apple in Patthanamthitta .....

 

 

oh wait .... that's a person, not stadium. 

[lemsip]

2 minutes ago, neel roy said:

Its not kensington oval. Its kennington oval. Kensington Oval is in Barbados.
 

London has 2 grounds. North london st johns wood ( tube stop) is Lords. South london kennington its oval. The tube stop name is Oval. 

 

Eden Park and Eden Gardens. One in Auckland one in mamtaland. 

Actually and to muddy things even more, the name of the ground in London now is the Kia oval - Kia being the current sponsor !

[neel roy]

1 minute ago, lemsip said:

Actually and to muddy things even more, the name of the ground in London now is the Kia oval - Kia being the current sponsor !

Vis Ragahavan the current head of Inv banking in Citigroup was the ex CEO of JP morgan Europe.  Being a cricket fan when he was in JP he decided to sponsor the whole of lords and you can see its all jp morgan written everywhere in stands. Rumor has it that they wanted to rename lords and was willing to pay a huge money to name it jp morgan lords. Lords politely declined ..